What's crazier is the fact that Rafa is the man to beat on this surface, a fact that I will never deny * Roger is the man*. But there are so many threads trying to discredit Roger's clay court game. In a case like this, I would gladly crown Roger 2nd best on the dirt.

7 of 9 loses coming to the same man, and only wining 8 sets. That includes the Hamburg victory last year. A part of me is realistic and another part believes he can bring his game together in 3 of the most important sets in France, against the best there is on clay.

What's crazier is the fact that Rafa is the man to beat on this surface, a fact that I will never deny * Roger is the man*. But there are so many threads trying to discredit Roger's clay court game. In a case like this, I would gladly crown Roger 2nd best on the dirt.

7 of 9 loses coming to the same man, and only wining 8 sets. That includes the Hamburg victory last year. A part of me is realistic and another part believes he can bring his game together in 3 of the most important sets in France, against the best there is on clay.

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The 1st few sentences of the 2nd paragraph ignore the context of: who else has been able to take more sets off of Nadal than Fed? Who's played him better? No-one.